Launch of ARC Discovery Project

An impressive gathering of 40 invited guests from government, industry and Griffith University, celebrated the launch of a new three-year ARC Discovery Project, Deciding Fair NDIS Rights, on 10th March at the Webb Centre, Southbank.  Among the guests welcomed by PVC Indigenous, Professor Cindy Shannon, and addressed by Mr Kevin Cocks, AM DUni, Patron of the Hopkins Centre, were Scott McDougall, Commissioner, Queensland Human Rights Commission; Fran Vickery, Queensland State Director, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission; Mary Burgess, Public Advocate Queensland; and Professor Emeritus Lesley Chenoweth AO. By investigating the logics and decisions about funded NDIS supports, the research team, led by Professor Michele Foster, A/Professor Kylie Burns and Professor Susan Harris Rimmer, hope that this project ensures the rights of people with disability are both recognised and realised as promised. Learn more about the project here.

View the launch of the ARC Discovery Project on 10th March 2021, on Deciding Fair NDIS Rights:

   

  

  
 
Images courtesy of the event launch from top left to bottom right: 
PVC Indigenous Professor Cindy Shannon welcoming guests; A/Professor Kylie Burns and Professor Susan Harris Rimmer presentation on the project; Mr Kevin Cocks AM DUni Patron of the Hopkins Centre giving him inspiring guest speech; Prof. Elizabeth Kendall, Director of The Hopkins Centre, closing proceedings; Image of the ARC Discovery project team; and final image (left to right) Professor Susan Harris Rimmer, A/Professor Kylie Burns, Professor Michele Foster, Scott McDougall, Commissioner Queensland Human Rights Commission, and Mary Burgess, Public Advocate Queensland.